Blog #27: Senior Project Reflection

1. I am proud that my lifestyle has changed for the better and I am able to take this away with me, aside from academics, when I graduate. I am also proud that I am able to help other people if they have a question about getting healthier.

2a. I believe I should get an AE because I was able to get through my taking time easily and my presentation was full of very informative content that I hope most people didn't know yet. I tried to incorporate a lot of the interesting misconceptions to keep people engaged.
2b I believe I should get an AE because I went above the requirements for all of the projects we had to turn in for senior projects.

3. The deadlines worked really well for me. Every big project we were given, we were assigned mini deadlines and if I wasn't forced to do that I would have probably procrastinated.

4. The 3- Column Chart didn't work for me. I couldn't really understand how to completely do it exactly the way it was supposed to be and I didn't really use it to help me in my senior project.

5. I has helped me because my whole lifestyle has changed. I would never be able to get this experience if I went to a normal high school. This is something I could walk away with, that doesn't really involve academics.

2-hour Presentation

Template

Service Learning

1)

L. Service Learning Log

I. I gained a lot of knowledge about my topic and my service learning also helped shaped my findings a lot. Anytime I had a question she would know the answers to it. As I got to shadow different people she trained I had a broader view on what how to be healthy. She also made me do handouts every week to present to her Aquafit class, which forced me to learn a lot more about nutrition.

A. This helped me answer my second question a lot because I got to shadow the different clients she works with for service learning. Each client was working towards a different goal and she showed me she had to prepare different diet plans for each of them. This is basically my whole second answer.

2) Jennie Lessmeuller (Contact information is on the log)

Blog #24: Independent Component 2

Literal:

a. I, Phoebe Luong, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b. I have completed 30 hours by going on a healthy diet and applying what I have learned. I also went above to exercise more because I learned that to be able to be completely healthy I must exercise more.

Interpretive:

Going on a diet is a 24/7 thing. I have to resist the urge to eat junk food and it also takes time to prepare healthier foods. The log is here.

Applied:

This has helped me with my EQ because it has is a primary source I could use to understand what it takes to actually change a healthy lifestyle. I learned a lot of helpful tips and strategies that would make it easier to eat healthy. For example, I learned that it is harder to eat healthy if getting healthier foods is harder to access so every week I make sure I have something in my cabinet or refrigerator that is healthy and easy to grab so that I would not resort to junk food. 

Blog #25: Helping 2013

Who did you interview: Andy

What day and time: 3/24 12:38p.m.

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why? 

• His first choice is something with engineering and his back-ups are computer engineer, piano, and something with fashion (because he might have service learning here)
• I told him he really needs to find service learning for engineering right away because it is hard, especially if he might need more hours for independent component and piano is a really good back up since he is already doing private lessons. I pointed out that it would be better for him to do engineering if he wanted that to be his future career though because he could take advantage of his senior project to see what it is like to be an engineer and possibly form connections. 

2. What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning?

• He doesn't have service learning yet, but he is emailing engineers and trying to get someone. If it doesn't work out he is just going to do piano.
• I told him that my mom might know an engineer or a program he may intern with because I think she sent my brother to do something like that in the summer, so I would ask her and I could send him the contact information. I also know a civil engineer who went to Cal Poly so I will ask him to see if I could give Andy his contact information. 

3. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• He is interested in learning about the different careers and seeing what they do.
• I told him yeah a lot of people chose future careers, but a lot of us also chose hobbies because of many different reasons. I also told him that some who chose future careers realized that they did not want that to be their job anymore.

4. What questions do they have about their senior project?

• He said he didn't have any other questions as of right now
• I gave him my phone number so he could text me if he had anymore question. I told him to try really hard to get engineering because it will be really useful if he wants that to be his future career. I also told him about what the teachers expects and how they grade and what is really important to do in senior project. 

Blog #22: Answer 3

EQ: What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?

Answer 3: You have to find out what kind of food you, yourself, should be eating.

Evidence:

• Everyone's body is different, (there are bodies for athletes, pregnant women, children, people with a sickness, ect.) therefore, people have to find out what is healthy for themselves
• The best way to do that is to use the a test that includes muscle mass (BMI is useless)
• People may have an "obese" BMI, but in reality it may just be muscle. This person may think to eat less, but instead they would have to eat more to maintain their health.

Sources:

• Service Learning: Jennie Lessmueller
• "Engineering a Healthy Body" by: Nick Hallale

Blog #21: 3-Column Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak8KiPjPxiWTdFZuM0g5c3FTZzJMOUpMMjN2STdFRVE